# Stellar Tour — AR Sky Map & Astronomy Lessons > AR stargazing app with astrophysicist-led tours of celestial objects. (iPhone/iPad app by Aaron Day.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stellar-tour/id1197929178 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Aaron Day](https://appshunter.io/developer/1028872452) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 4.70/5 from 1,695 App Store ratings · 91 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 570 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and 5 more - Released: 2017-03-07 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stellar-tour/id1197929178/reviews.md ## What is Stellar Tour? Stellar Tour is the only AR stargazing app written by an astrophysicist. Point your phone at the night sky and get a guided tour of everything up there: 1.7 billion real stars, every planet and major moon, eclipses, meteor showers, 13,000 deep-sky objects, and a course in astronomy that starts with the sky over your head and ends at the edge of the universe. Astrophysicist Dr. Aaron Day wrote every word. Instead of the standard flood of random facts, Stellar Tour tells the scientifically accurate story of each world: what it is like on the ground, in the seas, or floating through the clouds. THE NIGHT SKY, FOR REAL • 1.7 billion stars from ESA's Gaia survey, each in its true position. Pinch to zoom from your backyard to the galactic core. • The Milky Way as it actually looks, drawn from every star Gaia measured, with constellations, planets, and satellites overlaid on your live sky. • A sky that looks like the time it is: dawn, daylight, twilight, and full dark, with a real atmosphere and hazy ridges on the horizon. The Moon shows its earthshine, and Earth's night side its city lights. • Night Vision mode keeps your eyes dark-adapted with a pure red display. LEARN THE SKY • Fifteen short lessons, from the sky over your head to the edge of the universe. Every stop is a live visit: the lesson flies you to the star, steps the clock, or opens the tool it is talking about. The first three lessons are free. • Three reference books inside the app, How We Know, The Sky, and The Whole Story, with a glossary and dozens of labeled diagrams. SEVEN SKIES • See the stars the way Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, India, and the Arabian desert saw them: their star figures and folk names drawn on your sky, their stories on each star's page, and their lunar festivals on the calendar. PLAN YOUR NIGHT • Sky Calendar: every eclipse, meteor shower, conjunction, and full moon, filtered by type. The week ahead is free; the full year comes with the expansion. • Night Planner: the best targets for your sky tonight, hour by hour. Sky Forecast: the cloud cover over your spot, hour by hour. • Reminders that fire only when something is worth stepping outside for, including ISS and Tiangong passes with a live countdown. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for rise and set times and the next sky event. Ask Siri what is visible tonight. ECLIPSE EXPLORER Simulate any solar or lunar eclipse from any place on Earth: local timings, a disc animation of the Moon crossing the Sun, and a live countdown. The next solar eclipse at your own location is free: its times, what you will see there, and a reminder. GO DEEPER • Telescope Catalog: 13,000 NGC, IC, and Messier objects, searchable and shown on your sky. • Exoplanets: nearly every known world, in its actual position on the sky, with sizes, temperatures, and orbits. • The Solar System up close: planets and major moons in NASA probe imagery, in visible light, ultraviolet, infrared, and radar. Rotate them to any angle. • Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope pictures, on the pages of the objects they show. FOR EVERYONE • Kid Mode rewrites the whole tour for explorers aged five to seven. • Birthday Sky: a shareable card of the sky on the night you were born. • Smart search: ask for exactly what you want. • Fifteen languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, and Icelandic. Dates in your own calendar. • VoiceOver and Dynamic Type throughout. ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Cosmic Expansion adds the planner, the catalog, the eclipses, the exoplanets, the galaxies, the full year of the calendar, and the whole course in a single purchase that is yours forever. Take the Stellar Tour! ## Key features - Augmented reality stargazing - Astrophysicist-guided tours - Detailed exoplanet information - High-resolution solar system visuals - Exploration of galaxies and nebulae - Interactive 3D planet and moon models ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Upgrade: Lessons & Sky Tools | $3.99 | one-time | | Cosmic Expansion | $9.99 | one-time | | Cosmic Expansion | $9.99 | one-time | | Remove Ads 1 | $2.99 | one-time | | Remove Ads 2 | $9.99 | one-time | | Remove Ads 3 | $14.99 | one-time | ## What do users think of Stellar Tour? Reviews of Stellar Tour are mostly positive: the Education app is rated 4.7/5 from 1.7K App Store ratings. What users like most: amazing app, excellent for stargazing and learning. Top complaints: occasional crashes and glitches, some features not intuitive or user-friendly. Summarized from real user reviews. **Pros** - 🌟 Amazing app - 👍 Excellent for stargazing and learning - 🔭 Helpful for identifying stars and constellations - 🌌 Detailed information on planets and exoplanets - 🎓 Great educational tool for all ages - 🤩 Impressive 3D graphics and visuals **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches - 🤔 Some features not intuitive or user-friendly - 💰 Wish it was completely free without in-app purchases - 🌍 Language localization could be improved **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions - Videos not playing offline as expected **Most requested features** - Add support for viewing comets and other celestial events - Improve AR functionality and integration - Provide more detailed information on exoplanets - Introduce a dark mode option for better visibility at night ## Recent user reviews (10 of 91) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stellar-tour/id1197929178/reviews.md ### 5/5 — Me *2026-04-24, version 6.2* You are the best app ever really 📣 ### 5/5 — Good fun learning with kids *2026-02-26, version 5.5.0* My kids learn more about starts and planets. ### 5/5 — amazing *2026-01-04, version 5.5.0* great app, can't deside if SkyView is better, but i recommend getting both ### 5/5 — WOW!! *2025-12-18, version 5.5.0* This is the greatest app! I love being able to even see the moon below the horizon so I know where it will rise! Since I live so near a large city, it’s not always easy to see all the stars. So it’s great that the app helps me identify the constellations even when I’m not able to see all the stars involved! It’s almost like a video game! :) ### 5/5 — Best star app *2025-12-13, version 5.5.0* I love stellar Tour ❤️ it’s cool how you can change the dates and see where the stars and planets move! ### 5/5 — 🌐💠 *2025-10-07, version 5.5.0* 💝💝✅✅✅ ### 5/5 — The truth *2025-09-24, version 5.5.0* Keep this type of tech growing and developing. Pipeline it to me. Exclusively. ### 5/5 — Pplkjn *2025-07-30, version 5.5.0* Jensns ### 1/5 — Crashing *2025-06-14, version 5.5.0* Opened only once and kept crashing on the next attempts ### 5/5 — 5 Stars *2025-04-10, version 5.5.0* I think this star tour was and is an amazing way to learn different star constellations and lots of other background information about our planet, stars and solar system! :) ## Frequently asked questions about Stellar Tour ### What does Stellar Tour do? Stellar Tour is an augmented reality stargazing app that allows users to explore the night sky. It provides scientifically accurate information and guided tours of exoplanets, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, and nebulae, narrated by an astrophysicist. ### What are the key features of Stellar Tour? Key features include AR stargazing, astrophysicist-led educational tours, detailed information on exoplanets with their sizes and orbits, and high-resolution, rotatable 3D models of solar system planets and moons using NASA probe imagery. ### Is Stellar Tour free to use? The app is free to download and use, but it offers in-app purchases, suggesting that some content or features may require additional payment. ### What devices is Stellar Tour compatible with? While specific compatibility details are not provided, AR apps typically require devices with AR capabilities, such as modern smartphones and tablets running recent versions of their operating systems (iOS or Android). ### Who would benefit from using Stellar Tour? This app is ideal for amateur astronomers, students, educators, and anyone curious about space who wants to learn about celestial objects in an engaging, visually rich, and scientifically accurate manner. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 8.1 — 2026-09-22 Stellar Tour 8.1 makes two of the app's best things free, and lets the sky match yours. • Birthday Sky is free: the sky on the night you were born, the starlight from your birth year, and a card to share. • Your next solar eclipse is free: its times at your own location, what you will see there, and a reminder. An eclipse alert now lands you on it, not on a paywall. • Star Brightness is a rail on the Sky View, with four stops: City, Suburb, Dark site, Photograph. Drag it until the screen looks like the sky over your head. • By day, one tap on "See tonight" shows tonight's dark sky; "Back to now" returns. • More faint stars, a soft glow on the brightest, and a horizon haze that the Milky Way sinks into with its stars. • Set a location by typing its coordinates. • Fixes throughout the object sheets, the calendar family, the planner, Kid Mode and VoiceOver. ### 8.0 — 2026-09-09 Stellar Tour 8.0 is the biggest update the app has ever had. • Learn the sky: a course in astronomy in fifteen short lessons, from the sky over your head to the edge of the universe. Every stop is a live visit in the sky. The first three lessons are free. • Fifteen languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese join English, Spanish, and Icelandic, with every page, picture, and diagram translated. • Seven skies: the star figures, folk names, stories, and festivals of Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, India, and the Arabian desert, drawn on your sky beside the Western constellations. • A new look: a sky that follows the time of day, a real atmosphere, hazy ridges on the horizon, the Milky Way drawn from every Gaia star, earthshine on the new Moon, city lights on Earth's night side, and stars that blaze like suns when you fly to them. • Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope pictures on the object pages, and photographs that fill the screen. • Three reference books, How We Know, The Sky, and The Whole Story, with a glossary and new diagrams. • The Tonight widget finds its own night wherever you are, and the app uses far less memory at launch. • And a great many fixes across the object sheets, the calendar family, Kid Mode, Night Vision, the iPad, and VoiceOver. ### 7.2 — 2026-08-08 The total solar eclipse is August 12. Eclipse Explorer gives you the exact times for wherever you are standing, and that eclipse's page is free for everyone through the 12th. This update fixes the eclipse screen's location heading, which appeared in English for readers in other languages and sometimes forgot the place name entirely. It also corrects a few facts in the object descriptions, including how long Io takes to orbit Jupiter. ### 7.1 — 2026-08-04 The August 12 total eclipse is two weeks out, and this update is about being ready for it. • Sky Forecast: hourly cloud cover and conditions for your exact spot, plus the week ahead • Sky reminders now read the forecast, so a clouded-out peak night says so • During eclipse week the whole Eclipse Explorer is free for everyone • Tap a meteor shower's radiant right in the sky to learn about the shower • Night vision: every control, scroll bar and title now holds deep red • Night Planner: a plan for another place speaks that place's times, every row Plus smarter sky event announcements and dozens of small fixes. ### 7.0 — 2026-07-24 The August 12 total eclipse is coming, and this update is built for it. • Eclipse Explorer: any eclipse, simulated from your exact spot, with local timings and a live countdown • Night Planner: the best targets for your sky tonight, hour by hour • Telescope Catalog: 13,000 deep-sky objects, searchable • Birthday Sky: the sky of the night you were born, as a card worth sharing • Sky Calendar: the week ahead free, the full year with the expansion Plus a moonless Perseid peak the same night, smarter notifications, and many fixes. ## Apps similar to Stellar Tour | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Cosmic Atlas](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cosmic-atlas/id1305522465) | 3.7 (63) | Free | Education | | [SkyORB Classic Astronomy](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skyorb-classic-astronomy/id338051358) | 4.5 (23) | Free | Education | | [Exoplanet](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/exoplanet/id327702034) | 4.7 (956) | Free | Education | | [Pocket Planets](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-planets/id1496547610) | 4.5 (20) | Free | Education | | [Teia - 3D Solar System](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/teia-3d-solar-system/id1672118518) | 4.0 (5) | Free | Education | | [xSky](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xsky/id850941042) | 4.2 (75) | Free | Education | ## More apps by Aaron Day - [Cosmology](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cosmology/id1028872453) All apps by Aaron Day: https://appshunter.io/developer/1028872452 ## Related topics [keckwatch](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/keckwatch) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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